(apologies for cross-posting) The Centre for Research in Social Simulation (University of Surrey, UK) and the Centre d'Analyse et Mathématique Sociales (EHESS/CNRS, France) would like to invite you to attend QualityCommons–an interdisciplinary workshop on collective quality representations and the social processes behind them. The aims of the workshop are to: clarify research questions about the emergence of collective quality definitions consider preliminary ideas about the topic as applied to a number of domains (e.g. science, social computing, art, etc.) promote links between participants to encourage the development and submission of research proposals on the topic plan the writing of an edited book/special journal issue with chapters partly contributed by the participants and partly solicited via an open call for papers after the workshop. QualityCommons will take place on 28–29 January 2010 at the Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne University, in Paris. It will feature presentations by invited speakers, from both academia and industry, as well as panel discussions with a selected audience of up to 50 participants. The programme will be confirmed in due time. Confirmed speakers • Petra Ahrweiler University College of Dublin • Victoria Alexander University of Surrey • Alex Bentley University of Durham • Riccardo Boero Università degli Studi di Torino • John Casti Technical University of Vienna • Ciro Cattuto ISI Foundation, Italy • Bruce Edmonds Manchester Metropolitan University • David Hales Delft University of Technology • Dirk Helbing Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich • Victor Henning Mendeley • Paul Ormerod Volterra Consulting, UK • Gloria Origgi CNRS • Mario Paolucci Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Italy Practical information The workshop will start on Thursday morning and end on Friday afternoon. Participation to the workshop is free but limited to a maximum of 50 pre-registered participants. Due to the limited number of available places at the venue, we would like to ask prospective participants to fill in a pre-registration form http://bit.ly/5P89ZM with name, contact details, affiliation as well as a short motivation. We will be in touch as soon as possible to confirm the final list of participants. Organisers: Nigel Gilbert • Dario Taraborelli • Camille Roth Information: Lu Yang lu.yang@surrey.ac.uk QualityCommons http://bit.ly/5P89ZM -- Dario Taraborelli Research Fellow Centre for Research in Social Simulation University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH United Kingdom http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk http://nitens.org/taraborelli Editor, Review of Philosophy and Psychology http://www.springer.com/13164